I have heard the many goods of using FreeBSD in Networking over Linux with utils such as pf and ipfw
I currently have an multi tier application hosted on a vSphere environment with seperate servers ...

Maybe someone know how to enable console support to activate a serial console access to VM. I can't find solution. Maybe someone know what I need to do step by step. All generic solutions do not work.
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Sorry for the beginner question but can one guess what OS this is from the named folder in the structure?
I was not allowed to post the picture but perhaps the link works. (have no text-based img).
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While installing new hardware today, I involuntarily disconnected the power to one of our servers. This server is running FreeBSD 10 with Root-on-ZFS as offered by the installer.
It has a total of 36 ...

Seems I just can't nail the right rc.conf configuration for IPv6 on my FreeBSD 10 VPS.
I'd like to go completely IPv6 and tutorials/instructions i followed aren't really working for me somehow.
It's ...

I run 10.0-RELEASE on my server and I'm wondering something.
If I do buildworld with official source from svn, will i be able to use freebsd-update to upgrade in the future or I have to settle with ...

I donwloaded pfsense live cd 2.1.3 and now I want to run pfsense from an usb cdrom drive.
It loads a while and than crahses with "unable to mount ..."
I know I have to choose boot option 3 in order ...

I have a box onto which I just installed pfSense 2.1. The box has 16GB of RAM and is a quad-core processor (yeah, we're planning on doing some serious traffic and using a proxy filter with a lot of ...

Am unable to locate the source for pathchar (Van Jacobson's wonderful hack - http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/others/pathchar/) inspite of searching over many places. What happened to it and is it ...

I recently installed OpenBSD and went to check the version of Apache HTTPD and when I run httpd -v it tells me the version is Apache/1.3.29 (Unix). Surely this can't be right? I am using the latest ...

I'm considering some virtualization technologies in our University. And I really don't know which of them to use.
VMWare seem to be the default choice, but with the free version of vSphere 5.1 (atual ...

I've never encountered this before when using FreeBSD, but I recently got a new BSD VPS, and when I logged in as a wheel user and su to root, I used "passwd" to change the root password, but this only ...

I have a multi-site VPN currently running with pfSense boxes and currently using OpenVPN. However I can change the OS and VPN type if need be.
The main router has a 10.13.0.0/16 subnet and a series ...

I am looking at setting up a host that users can host services from. These are specific types of games and will require the user to log in. I'm bouncing between either bsd oor Debian to host, but I ...

I'm using PFSenses 2.0 in our development environment.
I'm depending on the DNS Forwarder to add DNS entries for new DHCP leases. This is working well, though I need to add support for wildcards to ...

I am sure this may seem like a simple question, but I cannot seem to ask Google the correct question for the life of me. In short, I am having trouble understanding how symbolic links function when a ...

(This may not be possible, but I thought I'd ask just in case it is, as it will save a considerable amount of cash.)
I'm building cluster of sorts that has one shared storage unit and two computing ...

Just for curiosity. An example machine: an dedicated amd64 server with the last stable version of FreeBSD and UFS for the partitions.
How much resources consume FreeBSD for each empty jail? I mean, I ...

I want to throw all services from the host system and put them in jails.
Unfortunatly this doesn't work for file sharing (e.g. nfsd) because the jails don't have there own network stack by default. I ...

I am looking to offer a free deployment system for ruby web applications (based on rack and not ruby on rails) so essentially I will allow users to upload a file with their app and the app will show ...

On Un*x, Is it ever a good idea to have one userid that many different people log into when they do stuff?
Often I'm installing software or something on a Linux or BSD system. I've developed software ...

I am looking for a good source (book, online) of networking on mac osx or linux.
What commands, how to connect, send data, security (checking for intruders) etc..
Setup server.
Thanks for the time..
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I have installed Dragonfly BSD, and currently I need to press F1 and 1 to get it to boot. It's in a KVM VM so I'd like it to boot automatically when I boot my real machine. I know how to get KVM to ...

Why does the BSD version 1.10 of nc disable the -e option found in other, so-called insecure distributions when the same dangerous feature could be trivially achieved as follows even with the 'secure' ...

I have a production FreeBSD webserver which I would like to "clone" to create a development/preproduction server.
I've installed a clean FreeBSD server and now I would like to know if there's an easy ...